Name

regexppos — Returns a pair with position and length of the first match.

Synopsis

list regexppos ( string INPUT ,
  string PATTERN );
 

Parameters

string INPUT

string PATTERN

Return

list

Description

If no match is found it returns an empty list.

Usage

  regexppos ("abcd012efgh345", "[0-9]+") -> [4, 3]
  ("aaabbb", "[0-9]+") -> []